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Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect.

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  Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect. James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 11:28 -0700
    Re: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll are the new religion. James McGinn <jimmcginn9@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 09:04 -0700
      Re: The HBO series "WestWorld". Apollyon <adravirgo@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 10:26 -0700
      Re: Cigarette smokers don't do stupid shit. moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2016-11-01 15:00 +0000

#602959 — Re: (Misleading) Correlations, sans Cause and Effect.

On Thursday, October 27, 2016 at 8:16:31 PM UTC-7, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> WikiPedia says: ＜＜  The Many-Worlds interpretation is 
>   an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts 
>   the objective reality of the universal wavefunction 
>   and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse.  ＞＞
> 
> "Quantum Mechanics" should be called "Quantum Statistics"
> as it's just (misleading) correlations, sans cause and effect.
> 
> "Virtual Particles" and "Probability Waves" are intrinsically random;
> nature, however, is not -- Randomness is just ignorance, nothing more.
> 
> Just because something is too complex to _fully_ understand,
> like tomorrow's weather, it doesn't mean that it's _truly_ random;
> in fact, we _know_ that it isn't.
> 
> _Nothing_ can change the future, present or past;
> the (4d) TimeScape is static.  The more ignorant you are,
> the more you ( erroneously ) believe in "free will".

The erroneous belief in free will is a result of the fact that the realization that free will is an illusion brings no survival advantage and it can bring a survival disadvantage.  Accordingly we should expect it to not be prevalent and to even be a taboo, as is the case.

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#603106 — Re: Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll are the new religion.

On Sunday, October 30, 2016 at 1:29:08 PM UTC-7, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> You ( JamesMcGinn ) wrote:
> > The erroneous belief in free will is a result of the fact that
> > the realization that free will is an illusion brings
> > no survival advantage and it can bring a survival disadvantage.
> > 
> > Accordingly we should expect it to not be prevalent 
> > and to even be a taboo, as is the case.
> 
> It doesn't take much to survive these;
> even the brain dead are kept alive.
> 
> Knowing fact from fiction is always benificial, I think.
> Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll are the new religion.

Well, its easy to take for granted the amount of education (and effort) necessary to even be aware of such.  By the way, there already exists a philosophical movement based on the realizaton (belief) that free will is an illusion: existentialism.

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#603118 — Re: The HBO series "WestWorld".

On Monday, October 31, 2016 at 12:24:24 PM UTC-5, Jeff-Relf.Me wrote:
> The HBO series "WestWorld" is a good example of
> " The Selfish Robot " I've been talking about.
> 
> Nature programmed us to play _Selfish_ games; to wit:
> 
>   Eating, Breathing, Drinking, Shitting, Whoring, etc.
> 
> Religion ( sex, drugs and music ) is a good example of 
> how we're programmed to feel more important ( to society )
> than we really are.

Is that why Jesus stressed service, brainiac?

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#603265 — Re: Cigarette smokers don't do stupid shit.

Jeff-Relf.Me <@.> writes:

>> cigs/nicotine is a legal drug.

>Cigarette smokers don't do stupid shit;
>quite the opposite, they're the smartest.

Inhaling carcinogenic smoke isn't "stupid shit", and
smokers are the "smartest" for doing so?

Ok.  You always did have some rather kooky ideas...

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